Sounds like to me hes using a 1wire device. Reading from SPI or I2C should
not present that sort of problem. Granted at 1/3ms intervals. From
userspace even on an RT kernel is going to have occasional latency. This is
to be expected.

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kirk,
>
> What bus are you using (SPI or I2C)? Both are "slow" buses which can sleep
> on
> you. In addition, are you using the FIFO?
>
> Scheduling your reads and using a fast enough SPI setting along with the
> FIFO
> should let you acquire at 3.2KHz w/o drops.
>
> On Tuesday, August 02, 2016 15:17:02 Kirk wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I'm working on a Beaglebone Black project using a MEMS accelerometer
> chip,
> > the ADXL312.
> >
> > The accelerometer has a pin which goes active each time a new data sample
> > is available to be read.
> > It runs at 3200 Hz.  (about 1/3 of a ms per sample)
> >
> > The pin is connected to a GPIO input and I've written code to monitor
> this
> > pin and grab the data each time.
> > The sampling normally runs for several seconds continuously.
> >
> > The problem is, every once in a while Linux gets busy and apparently
> > interrupts my code and I miss samples.
> > (an overrun bit lets me know this is happening)
> >
> >
> > I'm looking for ideas on how to improve this so data samples are not
> missed.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Kirk
>
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